Dropsafe

http://www.snort.org/ Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Norman Roesch. Snort is a packet sniffer that monitors network traffic in real time, scrutinizing each packet closely to detect a dangerous payload or suspicious anomalies. Snort is based on libpcap (for library packet capture), a tool that is widely used in

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Posted May 16, 2002 10:03 Pacific Time RSA SECURITY AND Sun Microsystems announced a joint sales, engineering and marketing agreement Thursday to integrate several of their network security products, an alliance the companies say will offer customers a complete security package and help administrators protect services and assets accessible through the Internet. RSA’s ClearTrust Web

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archive web page created. should speed downloads.

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…and, good heavens, the weather forecast was correct. Bright, sunny, warm… I got in late to the training (had real life to attend to in the morning) and am just wrapping up e-mail, etc, whilst Dave and Ray do an excellent job of combining education and experimentation. We are re-convening at my house later this

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by Melisa LaBancz With an overwhelming influx of devices wanting to connect to the Internet, SNMP 1.0 was developed to standardize their management. Envisioned as a type of protocol to allow for a central management station, all devices would have a small agent on them that would listen for the requests from the manager. With

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day 3 over. time to go home – early for once – and have a soak. clean house. prepare for an invasion of sun people, tomorrow. cooking a barbecue for 20-odd people. wine! beer! yay! i seem to be surrounded by motorcyclists. this is no bad thing. for the first time in my life i

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i really must sit down and write some code so that everything other than the last month’s worth of entries gets filtered off to another filename…

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…an adequate number of trees for one night, and had a nice if brief chat with Tony before the IRC network went down. Now: homewards, reams of paper and crimper tool in tow, for a late bath, grab a pussycat to snuggle, a cup of tea, and crash out. All I have to do is

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Posted May 13, 2002 07:25 Pacific Time LOOKING TO CREATE security standards for Web services, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) will announce the formation of the Security Standards Joint Committee (SSJC) on Tuesday. The SSJC, which will include members of many of OASIS’ existing security committees, will define a common set

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As the threats to corporate networks continue to mount and attackers’ methods evolve, security vendors are turning to technologies that detect not just what attackers are doing but how they’re doing it. eWeek (6 May 2002) http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=712&a=26347,00.asp

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20 people in a training room getting hungry. i ask, only to find that the person who was meant to be bringing sandwiches was not coming today, since we’d been a little fuzzy on the details of our requirements. aiiiiiiiiigh! three of us – ray, tony and i – make a mad dash through pissing

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I should still be in bed. This is all wrong. Why is the sun up? I got up at 0630h this morning – usually I am up at 0715 – in order to be awake enough to drive to GMP03, drop off a PCMCIA modem for Mikael and pick up some hardware for the training

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